Michelle A. Travis
University of San Francisco School of Law 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 matravis@usfca.edu 4154225869 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Academic Experience
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF LAW, San Francisco, CA.
Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship 9/13present Professor of Law with Tenure 8/06present CoDirector of the USF Labor and Employment Law Program 8/06present Associate Professor of Law 8/037/06
U.C. HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW, San Francisco, CA.
Visiting Professor 8/1412/14
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL, Portland, OR.
Assistant Professor 7/005/03
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Santa Clara, CA.
Adjunct Professor 1/997/00
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, Stanford, CA.
Teaching Fellow 8/985/00
Legal Employment
HELLER EHRMAN WHITE & MCAULIFFE, Palo Alto, CA. 9/956/98 Employment Litigation Associate: represented employers in discrimination,
contract, wage and hour, and other employmentrelated disputes; counselled employers on legal compliance with federal and state employment laws.
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT, Denver, CO. 8/949/95 Clerk for the Honorable David M. Ebel
Education
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, Stanford, CA. J.D.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY. B.A. in Psychology. • Phi Beta Kappa; NACGW AllAmerican Scholar Athlete • Research program at Stockholm University, Sweden
Courses Taught
Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, Advanced Employment Law Seminars, Torts, Remedies, Work/Family Law Seminar.Publications
Disqualifying Universality under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act MICH. ST. L. REV. (forthcoming 2015). Disabling the Gender Pay Gap: Lessons from the Social Model of Disability, 91 DEN. L. REV. 893 (2014).The Part and Parcel of Impairment Discrimination, 17 EMPLOYEE RTS. & EMP. POL’Y J.
35 (2013). Impairment as Protected Status: A New Universality for Disability Rights, 46 GA. L. REV. 937 (2012). Toward Positive Equality: Taking the Disparate Impact out of Disparate Impact Theory,
16 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 527 (2012).
What a Difference a Day Makes, Or Does It? Work/Family Balance and the FourDay Work Week, 42 CONN. L. REV. 1223 (2010).
The Future of WorkFamily Policy: Is “Choice” the Right Choice?, 13 EMPLOYEE RTS. &
EMP. POL’Y J. 385 (2009) (solicited book review).
Lashing Back at the ADA Backlash: How the Americans With Disabilities Act Benefits Americans Without Disabilities, 76 TENN. L. REV. 311 (2009).
The PDA’s Causation Effect: Observations of an Unreasonable Woman, 21 YALE J. L. & FEM.
51 (2009).
The FullTime FaceTime Norm: Lessons from the United Kingdom, 10 EMPLOYEE RTS. &
EMP. POL’Y J. 257 (2006).
Recapturing the Transformative Potential of Employment Discrimination Law, 62 WASH. &
LEE L. REV. 1 (2005).
Perceived Disabilities, Social Cognition, and Innocent Mistakes, 55 VAND. L. REV. 481 (2002). Telecommuting: The Escher Stairway of Work/Family Conflict, 55 MAINE L. REV. 262 (2002). Leveling the Playing Field or Stacking the Deck? The “Unfair Advantage” Critique of Perceived Disability Claims, 78 N.C. L. REV. 901 (2000). Note, Psychological Health Tests for ViolenceProne Police Officers: Objectives, Shortcomings, and Alternatives, 46 STAN. L. REV. 1717 (1994).
Defending the Indigent During a War on Crime, 1 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL’Y 69 (1992)
Presenter, “Telecommuting: The Escher Stairway of Work/Family Conflict,” University of Maine School of Law Symposium on Law, Labor, and Gender, Portland, ME (Sept. 2002). Presenter, “Sex Discrimination in the Virtual Workplace,” The Law and Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C. (May 2002). Moderator, “Working It Out: The Developing Law on Employment Arbitration Agreements,” Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR (Mar. 2002). Presenter, “Perceived Disabilities, Social Cognition, and ‘Innocent Mistakes,’” Stanford Law School, Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Palo Alto, CA (June 2001).
Other Academic Activities
CoOrganizer, Second Annual Workplace Law Scholars’ Writing Collaborative, Stinson Beach, CA (Feb. 2015). CoOrganizer, University of San Francisco School of Law Annual Jack Pemberton Lecture on Workplace Justice, San Francisco, CA (2005present). Participant, “Working Group on Pregnancy Accommodation,” U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA (2013present). CoOrganizer, Conference on “Moving Equality Forward: A Conversation on Present and Future Directions of Lawyering for Equality,” University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, CA (March 2010). Participant, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center (2007). Participant, Caregiver Bias Working Group, WorkLife Law Center, U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA (2007). CoOrganizer, Conference on “Maximizing Client Service with PartTime Attorney Schedules,” University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, CA (March 2006). Participant, Law and Society Summer Institute, “Legal Scholars and Social Scientists: Critique, Challenge, and Collaboration,” Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, IL (July 2002).Amicus Brief Participation
Signatory, Brief of Law Professors and Women’s Rights Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner, U.S. Supreme Court, Young v. U.P.S., Inc. (2014) (cited in Justice Kennedy's dissent, Young v. UPS (2015) (No. 121226)).
